Melindil wrote...
My question to all of you, then, is how does your FemShep cope with stressful and/or traumatic events?
Since I'm a big Honorverse fan, probably something like:
(Hamish Alexander meets Honor Harrington in person for the first time.)
She'd been calm then, too, when she'd come aboard to report her damages
and casualties with an indifference which had repelled him. She hadn't
even seemed to care, as if people were simply part of a ship's fittings,
only weapons to be expended and forgotten.
Her emotionless detachment had appalled him . . . but then the report
came in that Commander McKeon had somehow gotten almost a hundred of his
crew away in his single surviving pinnace, and the mask had slipped.
He'd seen her turn away, trying to hide the tears in her good eye, the
way her shoulders shook, and he'd stepped between her and his staff to
block their view and guard her secret as he realized this one was
special. That her armor of detachment was so thick because the pain and
grief behind it were so terrible.
(Hm. Hope a Spacer Femshep's mom isn't like Allison Chou Harrington. "That Kaidan guy has a nice ass. Bet you have fun chasing him around."
"Mother!" - Ahem, I'll stop scrolling through Baen Webscriptions for quotes.)
(I guess I'll have to go look up scenes with Michelle "Mike" Henke for
future FemShep references. Later. When I
have another Femshep.)